One of our last stops today was Old Cowtown, an outdoor museum consisting of a few dozen relocated/reconstructed buildings from the late 1800s, and filled with period appropriate furniture and other such set dressing. I was struck first by nostalgia. My childhood home in Vermont has since burned down, but was constructed around the same time as these buildings. Small architectural touches, like the width of the floorboards, and the shape of the door frames hit me in a way I really hadn't expected. But beyond that, I was struck by how central homemaking was to life back then. There were excellent displays surrounding the life of a professional gambler, the innovation of stream power, and several major trades of the era... But so much of my modern work all a homemaker was reflected in the exhibits (including in many that were not meant to be homes). It really drove home how absurd it is that we've turned having one of the adults in your household be a full time homemaker into be a luxury. #OldCowtown #FrontierLiving #FrontierLife #Homemaking #Homemaker #GothicHomemaking #GothicHomemaker https://www.instagram.com/p/CSyMpfggmYO/?utm_medium=tumblr
